Handbook of Occupational Groups and Families		Classification Programs Division
Release Date:  August 2001		Section Fifty-seven of Sixty-six

    7000 - PACKING AND PROCESSING FAMILY   

This job family includes occupations involved in determining the measures required to protect items against damage during movement or storage; selecting proper method of packing, including type and size of container; cleaning, drying, and applying preservatives to materials, parts, or mechanical equipment; and packing, equipment, parts, and materials.

Throughout the following information, an asterisk (*) stands for series with a published standard and a double asterisk (**) stands for series with a published flysheet.

Occupations in this family are:

7002 Packing*

This occupation includes jobs involved in preserving and/or packing and repacking equipment, parts, tools, materials, and other items in various types of containers to protect them from damage, deterioration, or corrosion during shipment and storage. The work includes preserving and packing specialized devices, delicate equipment, munitions, weapons, and combustible and toxic materials and substances. Most work requires the incidental use of a variety of trade practices associated with related or support occupations such as forklift operating, wood working, mechanical equipment assembly, and materials handling.

7006 Preservation Servicing*

This occupation includes jobs involved in preserving mechanical and metal items, and large, powered mechanical systems, vehicles, craft, and weapons against corrosion, deterioration, and similar damage, and performing related disassembly and assembly. Fighter planes, combat tanks, automobiles, ships, trucks, engineering equipment, engines, transmissions, weapons, and combustion powered generators are examples of the mechanical equipment processed. The work typically requires: knowledge of various types and uses of preservatives that protect metal and material against corrosion and deterioration; skill in applying preservatives using specialized equipment and processes; ability to partly disassemble and assemble a variety of mechanical systems or equipment; ability to learn and precisely follow a variety of detailed processing instructions, and, at some levels, use judgment in planning work sequences and selecting processes.

7009 Equipment Cleaning*

This occupation includes jobs involved in the cleaning of such equipment as aircraft, ships, engines, electronic equipment, storage and fuel tanks, immersion vats, grease pits, pumps, and traps. This work is accomplished using ultrasonic vibration methods, automated and nonautomated immersion tanks, industrial washers, steam cleaners, brushes, buffers, scrapers, sanders, grinders, files, and other necessary tools or processes to remove paint, sludge, grease, carbon, oil, corrosion, rust, and radioactive contaminants. The final product must meet specified finish requirements such as smoothness, brightness, and cleanliness.

7010 Parachute Packing*

This occupation includes jobs that involve unpacking, cleaning, examining, assembling, and packing cargo, drag (deceleration), special weapons, personnel, experimental, and other similar types of parachutes and parachute systems. The work requires a knowledge of parachute packing procedures.